Tour de France Femmes chief Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) crashed with 6.3km to go on stage 5 and noticed her maillot jaune slip away.
The incident unfolded on the exit of a roundabout the place a contact of wheels triggered a mass pile-up that left Vollering with an harm to her hip and chasing over a minute behind a lead group containing Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM), who was positioned third general at 34 seconds and fourth-placed Kristen Faulkner (EF-Oatly-EasyPost).
Also down within the crash have been Pfeiffer Georgi (Team DSM-Firmenich-PostNl) and Ruby Roseman-Gannon (Liv-AlUla-Jayco).
Blanka Vas (SD Worx-ProTime) received the stage forward of Niewiadoma whereas second-placed Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck) completed in a chasing group, having additionally gone down within the wreck.
Vollering completed the stage 1:46 down on the stage winner and dropped down the Tour de France Femmes general standings as Niewiadoma moved into the maillot jaune.
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